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Koh Larn – The Russians are here!

After last nights crazy Thai adventure, I still have to get up and meet Anastasia at the ferry around 10:30 AM. She is coming for a night with her sister Olga, and friend Kosta. This is going to be another 2 days of really awesome fun, with my friends from Jomtien Beach condo.

Right on time, the ferry pulls into Naban Port and just a few minutes later I see the 3 Russians. We all say hi, and walk back to the hotel, where they will check into their rooms and we will take our motorcycles for the day.

I have no idea what the plans is, but I think I will try and show them all the beaches, and end off the day with a sunset from Monkey Nual Beach.

Nual Beach, also known as Monkey beach is the furthest away beach. But come on, we are on an Island, it is only 8 minutes away. 🙂

We spend about 2 hours on Monkey beach swimming, snorkeling, and watching the monkeys fight.

Selfies don’t always work under water

Onto the next beach. Only 5 minutes away is Samae which is just around the corner, and over the hill.

As we are going up the big hill, the bike starts to run out of gas, but we make it to the top and easily make it to Samae beach.

Samae Beach is full of people and no real place to sit. So we decide we want to go to Tien Beach, but before we do, we have to head back over the hill to get gas. I am not sure if we will make it.

I was right, less than half way up the hill, it runs out of gas.

Within seconds of running out of gas, two Thai girls on a scooter stop and ask what is the problem. I tell them we ran out of gas, but had hoped to make it over the hill. I kind of felt like a stupid tourist!

The girls said, “wait 5 minutes, we will be back.”

While we were waiting to told Anastasia to push the bike up the hill. She gave me a nice look, which I take it as. No, that is not going to happen.

About 5 minutes later the Thai girls come back with a liter of gas and fill our tank.

I ask them how much I owe them and the girls says, it is 45 baht per liter. I give her 60 baht, and they refuse to take it. They give me 20 baht back and tell us to enjoy our holiday.

I am amazed! This is the second time a Thai person has done a selfless act of kindness and wanted nothing in return. I am extremely grateful.

Well, the Russians and I are back up and running. We turn the bikes around and head to Tien beach.

Tien Beach is a lot like Nual Beach, but smaller. We find a great place to lay our towels down, and we all jump in the water.

Tien beach is really pretty. There are rocks on each side of the beach, and then the beach itself is soft, yellow sand, with warm water. Just prefect.

While at Tien beach we also have something to eat, as the prices at this beach are a little more normal. Unlike Nual (Monkey) Beach.

It is getting closer to sunset, so we head over to Nual beach for our view.

The sunset was pretty awesome, but it is now time to leave the beaches, and head back to the hotel to get cleaned up, and go for dinner.

For dinner that night, we went to the Koh Larn Weekend Night Market, and guess who I see. My lady friends from the street. On weekends they set up here to sell food. I love it. They saw me first and yell out, “Friend, Friend, BBQ here” and as normal, are laughing like crazy.

I also see the owner of the hotel. Wan. I find out, the one lady is his mom. This is really cool. I feel like I am with friends.

Wan gives us, as he calls it, VIP treatment. We all get discounts on the fish, and Wan also brings it back to our hotel to eat on the patio.

Anastasia, Olga, Kosta, and the Amazing Rob!

A great meal, with amazing friends. The best way to end such a fun day!

Day two starts off with Seafood Rice and coffee on the patio, which takes me a few minutes to wake up. Maybe one to many rums last night. Haha.

After breakfast, we hop back on the motorcycles and head to the view point from near our hotel. This overlooks Tawaen Beach.

From here, we go to the next view point that over looks Nual, Tien and Samae Beaches.

This is the view point with 1 billion steps, to reach the top. The entire way I complain about how many steps there are. But I make it to the top.

For whatever reason, I am getting the same heat sickness I got back in Indonesia. Back them, it was everyday, within 20 minutes of being in the heat I would get feel sick. I hope it doesn’t last all day.

Anyways, the view from here is awesome!

After the view point we head over to Nual Beach where Kosta and I drop off the girls and head back to the hotel to give the scooters back. We only had them for 24 hours.

Kosta and I take a scooter sidecar ride back to the beach, where we have a little fun accident. As the scooter driver is going down the driveway, he locks the front brake up, and doesn’t release it. The back of the scooter comes up in the air. Kosta and I both fall forward, and then the bike stops. He still doesn’t release the front brake. So Kosta moves to the back of the sidecar and the back wheel comes back down. Neither of us got hurt, and I told the driver, this was fun, can we do it again. He says sorry, and I say, no worries. All part of the authentic Thailand experience. haha!

We spent the entire day at Nual beach, and the highlight was when Anastasia got the courage to feed the monkeys. Everything was going great until one of the baby monkey’s decides she wanted to touch Anastasia on the shoulder. I even said, “here one comes.” As soon as the little one touches her, she jumps and screams. Oh My God! it was funny. I spent the rest of the day teasing her about the little tiny monkey who scared big girl Anastasia. hahaha!

After an amazing two days spending with my friends, it is now 5 pm and they are heading back to Jomtien Beach. The good news is, I will see them again in a few days when I leave the Island.